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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · 10d

Tonight! It's the annual BBC National Short Story Award ceremony and how great that 2025 is the 20th year anniversary of this prestigious and important prize which celebrates the power of short form prose. Live on Front Row, BBC Radio 4 1915

Photo shows a book which is the collection of the five shortlisted stories for the 2025 BBC short story award

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · 20d

Five real contenders for the Booker Shortlist - Love Forms, Universality, Seascraper, Audition, Endling. Announcement this Tuesday evening lads!

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Sep 1

🍁 It’s here! The September Edition!

Terrific novels out this month, these four are only a small sample.. we are going to be fine this autumn with these lovely books

William Boyd – The Predicament
Olga Tokarczuk – House of Day, House of Night
Nathan Harris - Amity
Elizabeth Day – One of Us

Photo of four novels being published in September

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes!

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Aug 31

The latest Book at Bedtime from Pier Productions, on Radio 4, find it on BBC Sounds. An eerily prescient novel about the rise of fascism from 1934 that’s been a runaway success this year. Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, pub Persephone books. #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Photo of the novel Crooked Cross by Sally Carson

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jul 12

TOP FIVE new July books - real prize listers these

Arifa Akbar - Wolf Moon

Benjamin Wood – Seascraper

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy – The Other Wife

Esther Freud - My Sister and Other Lovers

Maria Reva – Endling

🙏 Bloomsbury, Sceptre and Penguin Viking for the copies. Appreciate it! #booksky

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jul 12

Off to order ! Thank you

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jun 28

Cadaqués ❤️💛

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Now on BBC Sounds - for free - Anna Hope reads her latest novel ALBION, a riveting story of a toxic father, family dynamics, and the land. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#booksky #audiobook

Photo shows cover of the novel Albion by Anna Hope

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kakigori Summer by Emily Itami - a gentle, slow, sad read and genuinely life-affirming with great gags. Absolutely perfect for a summer holiday, but you will immediately want to book a flight to Japan 😎

Photo of novel Kakigori Summer by Emily Itami with a sun hat and towel on a beach

Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jun 16

June is busting out all over! These three novels have to be on your radar this month – all out this Thursday 19 June

Emily Itami – Kakigori Summer

Claire Adam – Love Forms

Wendy Erskine – The Benefactors

#booksky thanks to Sceptre, Faber and Phoenix Books for the copies

Three books in a stack with yellow roses

Emily Itami – Kakigori Summer

Claire Adam – Love Forms

Wendy Erskine – The Benefactors

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Jun 12

Two very good reads have just been awarded Women’s Prizes tonight - the twisty The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden and the life-affirming The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke. Congratulations ! 🎉 #booksky @womensprize.bsky.social

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 29

This novel is a revelation! Set in the underbelly of Berlin, I couldn’t be less interested in clubbing but there’s SO much more to it.. it is a stunning read. Full review on my IG

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 22

Currently available on BBC Sounds for just one more week, for free, a lovely adaptation of The Artist by Lucy Steeds. Set in 1920s Provence it’s a perfect summer / read listen ☀️ #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Photo shows cover of the novel The Artist by Lucy Steeds, in front of a painting of the village of Ceret by Raoul Dufy

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 12

This weekend I came to the late realisation that Elizabeth Strout is a genius. That is all #booksky

A copy of the novel Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 6

I’d agree with you.

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 6

More May releases in my Tower of Literary Power! Terrific reads, all. 💙 #booksky #books

A pile of six novels being released in May.

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 2

In praise of the Local Free Library! Thanks to the anonymous donor.. thrilled with this book haul - I have read the Accidental Tourist, which Tyler shall I read next? #booksky

Four novels by Anne Tyler and one by Penelope Lively laid on a tiled floor with a bunch of peonies

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · May 1

🌻Mayday! Just four of a big pile of books which are published this month: these are leading authors at the top of their game. Thanks to the publishers for the review copies. (Lily-of-the-valley is gifted in France on 1 May - to bring renewal and happiness. It smells divine.) #booksky #books

A pile of four new novels by Maggie Nelson, Edward St Aubyn, Sarah Moss and Anna Hope, published in the UK in May. Alongside is a small Lily of the Valley flower.

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Apr 29

Author Jane Gardam has died, aged 96. A great age, but still sad. She was renowned for her sharp but delicate portraits of twentieth century English life, full of wit and wry understanding about class, vanity and frailty. If you don’t know her, start with Old Filth. #booksky #books

The cover of novel Old Filth by Jane Gardam

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Apr 7

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... BEAUTIFUL adaptation of this important classic - now on @bbcsounds.bsky.social #booksky #books

Maurice by E. M. Forster - 6. An Outlaw in Disguise - BBC Sounds

E. M. Forster’s novel of gay love, published posthumously, now a beacon of gay literature.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Apr 1

Moomins.. Soothing 💚

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Apr 1

🌼🌹Wowsers! Such great titles coming out this month! Happy April reading.. highly recommend each of these, and thanks to the publishers for the review copies.

A stack of six novels bring published in April 2025

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Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Mar 29

Asparagus season in the village! #southoffrance #lesuddefrance

Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social · Mar 29

It was love at first sight.

The first time Mrs Dalloway saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

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